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Some of us love technology, some of us hate it, but you can't avoid it.
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Sometimes it feels like tech riggles its way into every part of your life, like a horrible little worm.
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The tech giants are quietly shaping our world, deciding how things will work all while
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distracting us with shiny new toys. But it's about time to look behind the screen and talk about
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what's actually happening. Welcome to the interface, the show that explores how tech is rewiring your
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week and your world. Okay, we're starting a podcast. What are we podcasting about guys?
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Should we tell people who we are? We should introduce ourselves.
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Yeah, probably. Tom, you are our BBC tech columnist. Your reporting has taken on some of the
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biggest tech companies in the world. And you actually got Facebook to delete over a billion people's
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facial recognition data, right? Well, you know, I do my best. But we've also got Nikki here.
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Nikki, you've done some of the most acclaimed podcasts about life online and you're often
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wandering around in the weirdest neighborhoods of the internet. This is a weird neighborhood.
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This is we are creating a weird neighborhood. We're cleaning a weird neighborhood. And Karen,
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you wrote the defining book on AI. I'm packing it in a way that's occasionally terrifying,
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but reminding us we still always have to say. Well, my argument about technology is always
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been that every single part of our lives in one way or another, every part of world events is on
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some level of technology story. But I think what makes this stuff interesting to everyday people,
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even people who think that they don't care about technology is it is about your life. Yeah,
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I always find myself telling people that like what happens on the internet does not stay on the
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internet. 100%. And I think it's we're at a moment in time now where you simply cannot not know
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about technology because it is in many ways the thing that defines our existence now.
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Still, boys, what are we going to be talking about each week? Well, it's questions like,
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is AI more accurate when you're nice to it? On certain kinds of math problems, the AI that they
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were using was more accurate when you asked it to pretend to be a Star Trek character.
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Is online betting changing the outcome of world events? This is a massive national security issue.
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Huge. Yeah, yeah. Are data centers in your hometown? And do we actually even leave them?
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These are facilities that are hundreds of acres. Will Nikki ever learn how to post on TikTok?
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I you've promised to teach me how to post on TikTok. I hope you are. And Will Tom,
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Bluetooth devices, ever faces biggest fear being bored. Karen, my life is already so hard.
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You want me to make myself bored? I don't even know how to do that anymore.
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You don't need AI agents, which may sound weird coming from service now, the leader in AI agents.
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The truth is AI agents need you. Sure, they'll process, predict, even get worked
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autonomously. But they don't dream, read a room, rally a team, and they certainly don't have
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shower thoughts, pivotal hallway chats or big ideas. People do. And people, when given the best
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AI platform, they're freed up to do the fulfilling work they want to do. To see how service now puts
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AI to work for people, visit servicenow.com.
